Southern Cross SH50-16 — AUSTopo 1:250,000 Topographic Map (2025)

Historic goldfields, granite–greenstone country, and the great east–west transport corridor—mapped with authority across Western Australia’s eastern Wheatbelt

Covering Southern Cross, Westonia, Moorine Rock, Bodallin, Marvel Loch, and the surrounding Yilgarn district, this AUSTopo 1:250,000 sheet provides a clear, authoritative regional overview of country shaped by gold mining, farming, rail transport, and long-distance travel. From the Great Eastern Highway and historic railway settlements to the mineral-rich Southern Cross greenstone belt, granite outcrops, salt lakes, and extensive woodland, it is designed for professionals and experienced travellers who need dependable big-area context.

The sheet brings together townsites, highways, regional roads, rail infrastructure, mine access routes, station and farm tracks, drainage systems, terrain, vegetation patterns, reserves, and named localities in one coherent view—valuable for exploration programs, agricultural operations, environmental work, emergency coordination, regional touring, and remote-area navigation.

At 1:250,000 scale (1 cm = 2.5 km), this is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire Australian continent—ideal for regional planning, land management, emergency coordination, and serious navigation.

Explore adjoining sheets and national coverage with the official AUSTopo 1:250,000 map index.

🧭 Why this map stands out

• Updated mapping (2025) — aligned to modern Australian datums for confident, current use

• True regional perspective — mining districts, transport corridors, farming country, salt lakes, and remote woodlands shown in one coherent view

• Professional-grade cartography — relied on by emergency services, planners, exploration teams, and land managers

• Dual coordinate systems — seamless transition between office planning and field navigation

• Printed in Australia — precision output, locally finished and quality-checked

🗺️ What you’ll see

• Contours and spot elevations across granite outcrops, greenstone belts, broad plains, and low wooded rises

• Southern Cross, Westonia, Moorine Rock, Bodallin, Marvel Loch, Yellowdine, and surrounding localities

• Great Eastern Highway, the east–west railway corridor, regional roads, mine access routes, and remote tracks

• Salt lakes, drainage lines, water features, reserves, and extensive eucalypt woodland

• Mining areas, agricultural districts, vegetation patterns, administrative boundaries, and clear grid overlays for accurate positioning

📐 Map details at a glance

• Scale: 1:250,000

• Series: AUSTopo — Australian Digital Topographic Map Series

• Coverage: Southern Cross SH50-16

• Map currency: 2025

• Coordinates: Geographical & MGA

• Datum: GDA2020, AHD

• Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)

• Sheet size: 800 mm (W) × 500 mm (H)

💧 Field-Ready Options for Rugged Use

Choose the format that best suits your intended use—from lightweight trip planning to demanding all-weather fieldwork.

✅ Standard Paper

• Printed on 100 gsm FSC® coated paper

• Produces crisp, clear text and finely defined map symbols

• Lightweight and convenient for general reference or protected field use

• An economical choice for trip planning, research and office applications

✅ Waterproof and Tearproof Tyvek®

• Made from genuine DuPont™ Tyvek®, an advanced synthetic material composed of pure polyethylene fibres

• Waterproof, tear-resistant, foldable and extremely lightweight

• Printed using HP pigment-based inks for a permanent waterproof finish

• Suitable for backpacks, vehicles and exposed field conditions

• Ideal for bushwalkers, emergency personnel and outdoor professionals

• Provides exceptional durability without the weight and bulk of lamination

✅ Laminated

• Fully encapsulated between two 80-micron gloss laminate sheets

• Highly resistant to water, stains, smudges and tearing

• Draw on the surface with whiteboard markers for route planning or instruction

• Use Mark-It-Dots to identify campsites, hazards, access points or other locations without marking the map permanently

• Wipeable and reusable

• Ideal for offices, classrooms, operations centres and repeated field reference

🎯 Who it’s for

• Geologists, prospectors, surveyors, and mineral-exploration teams

• Mining operators, contractors, and infrastructure planners

• Farmers, landholders, agronomists, and agricultural service providers

• Emergency services, bushfire planners, and regional coordinators

• Conservation managers, ecologists, and environmental field teams

• Long-distance travellers, four-wheel-drive tourers, and journey planners

• Educators, researchers, historians, and students

🇦🇺 Our commitment

Every AUSTopo map we supply is printed and finished in Australia, colour-managed for accuracy, hand-checked, and packed with care—so it arrives ready for real-world use.

Plan fieldwork, follow the historic east–west corridor, and navigate the Southern Cross region with confidence. Choose your finish and add this essential 2025 AUSTopo map to your kit today.